Year of the Month: Sonny Rollins’ A Night at the Village Vanguard by Dylan “Balthazar Bee” Groves
To paraphrase Nicolas Cage in Matchstick Men, for most people, jazz is like a foreign film…
Year of the Month: The Tall T by John “Son of Griff” Anderson
In 1956, screenwriter Burt Kennedy submitted a script for a Western to John Wayne. He…
Year of the Month: Sweet Smell of Success by Babalugats
We open on New York. Black and white. Shot on location. Night. Some newspaper men…
Chartbusting! 1957
If you’ve ever been around people of another generation or, heaven forbid, young people with…
Year of the Month: 3:10 to Yuma by Tom “Vomas” Morton
“Do I have two volunteers?” “We gotta know what we’re gettin’ ourselves into. Might not…
Disney Byways: FUN AND FANCY FREE
It seems astonishing to say now that the Disney studios were courting bankruptcy, but there…
M: The Murderer Among Us
1931 was an unpleasant time in Germany. Fritz Lang knew it. So did Peter Lorre.…